From subs at mail.kfcf.org Thu Feb 12 13:48:09 2009 From: subs at mail.kfcf.org (KFCF Subscribers & Friends list) Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 13:48:09 -0800 Subject: [KFCF Friends] Mid January E-Newsletter Message-ID: Lloyd Carter You may have noticed that Lloyd Carter is in the news lately. Lloyd will break his silence on the controversy Friday, Feb 13th at 3 PM on KFCF 88.1 FM. "To all my friends and all my critics, I am going to address my controversial comments about farmworkers and the resulting witch hunt on my radio show this Friday at 3 p.m., KFCF, 88.1 FM. If you are unable to listen at that time, or are out of range of the radio station signal, the show will later be posted on this website and at H2opodcast.com . I haven't yet had a chance to defend myself, thanks to the hatchet job by the Hydraulic Brotherhood. -- Lloyd" Donate Counterspace If you own a business, and would like to donate counterspace for KFCF brochures, email rwithers at kfcf.org or call 559-233-2221 and leave us your address and we'll send you some brochures, program grids and an eco-friendly display holder. Out and About KFCF will be tabling at the Chinatown parade on Saturday in downtown Fresno. Celebrate the New Year with a new t-shirt, mug, tote bag or a KFCF bumpersticker. We'll be there from 11 AM to 3 PM. We'll have program grids, brochures and other goodies. KFCF will also have a table at the Vagina Monologues at CSU, Fresno on Saturday and Sunday evenings at 7:00 PM at the Satellite Student Union. We'll have some T's, totes, and mugs, plus some brochures. Come on by and say "Hi!" Pakatelas - The spoken word show Poetry and spoken word are featured on the program, "Pakatelas", which airs on KFCF on the 2nd and 4th Thursdays at 3 PM. Mike and Brian will review a book or two, interview a poet and hear a poem or two, and have a calendar of local spoken word events. Thursday , Feb 12th at 3 PM the show will feature Corrinne Hales, a professor at CSU, Fresno. KFCF Wish list Remora Digtal Console KFCF is getting ready to install a new audio board in our studio, and we need a countertop for the board. We need something that's about 40" by 2 " by 33". If you have something that would look nice, or know someone who will sell countertop surfaces that small (most dealers say a minimum of 25 square feet) let us know at rwithers at kfcf.org or by calling (559)233-2221. This surface will have to support equipment and will need to be suitable for writing. Myspace Check out the new official KFCF MySpace page at http://www.myspace.com/881kfcf . Feel free to add yourself as a friend, or check out any current news at our MySpace page. Board meeting The next board meeting of the Fresno Free College Foundation (which owns and operates KFCF) will be Tuesday Feb. 17th, 2009 at 7 PM at the IAM union hall at 544 W Olive Avenue in Fresno. 12th Annual Homelessness Marathon The 12th annual Homelessness Marathon will air on KFCF on Monday, Feb 23rd from 4 PM until 6 AM the next morning. The 12th Annual Homelessness Marathon will originate from Pass Christian, Mississippi. The broadcast will start at 6 p.m., central time, on Monday, February 23rd and end at 8 a.m., central time, on Tuesday, February 24, 2009. Pass Christian is next door to Waveland, MS, which the Army Corps of Engineers officially designates as the " Ground Zero," where Hurricane Katrina came ashore. We call it the "other" Ground Zero, because it's the one that didn't get the attention (or the multi-trillion dollar response) that was given to the Ground Zero in New York. Pass Christian was less affected than Waveland, losing a mere 100% of its public buildings, 100% of its businesses and 80% of its homes. Though the Gulf Coast is probably only about 20% rebuilt and there is a drastic shortage of affordable housing, the state and Federal governments will soon remove the remaining temporary trailers and cottages. Thousands of desperately poor elderly and disabled people and single parent families with young children are about to be thrown on the streets with nowhere to go. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: image/jpeg Size: 26628 bytes Desc: not available URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: image/jpeg Size: 17948 bytes Desc: not available URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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The broadcast will begin on Feb 23rd at 4 PM and run until 6 AM the next morning. Many of you might remember that KFCF hosted the Homelessness Marathon broadcast on 2007 and it brought the issue of homelessness in the Central Valley to the forefront and there was extensive media coverage. KFCF has continued to broadcast programs dealing with issues involving the homeless population in our area and Mike Rhodes has produced a number of excellent programs on the issues and will be producing a series of short pieces on issues in our area that will be played on KFCF at the top of each hour during the broadcast. Below you will find more information on the broadcast, including a tentative schedule of planned topics, and a note from Jeremy, the producer and host of the Marathon. Rychard Withers - Executive Director Fresno Free College Foundation / KFCF-FM PO Box 4364 ? Fresno, CA 93744 (559)233-2221 The 12th Annual Homelessness Marathon will originate from Pass Christian, Mississippi. The broadcast will start at 4 p.m., Pacific time, on Monday, February 23rd and end at 6 a.m., Pacific time, on Tuesday, February 24, 2009. Pass Christian is next door to Waveland, MS, which the Army Corps of Engineers officially designates as the " Ground Zero," where Hurricane Katrina came ashore. We call it the "other" Ground Zero, because it's the one that didn't get the attention (or the multi-trillion dollar response) that was given to the Ground Zero in New York. Pass Christian was less affected than Waveland, losing a mere 100% of its public buildings, 100% of its businesses and 80% of its homes. Though the Gulf Coast is probably only about 20% rebuilt and there is a drastic shortage of affordable housing, the state and Federal governments will soon remove the remaining temporary trailers and cottages. Thousands of desperately poor elderly and disabled people and single parent families with young children are about to be thrown on the streets with nowhere to go. As Jeremy Alderson, the host of the National Homelessness Marathon writes: In a matter of weeks, thousands of people who survived Hurricane Katrina and, in some cases, the formaldehyde-contaminated FEMA trailers, are about to be evicted from their housing and made homeless all over again. Worse yet, these are primarily elderly and disabled people as well as single parent families with young children. Still worse, if that's even possible, this low intensity crime against humanity isn't being perpetrated by cruel landlords but by government on all levels. I will give you the background. Everything you need to know about the Federal post-Katrina relief effort along the Gulf Coast can be summed up in the three answers I received to this question: "What has Phil Mangano's role been?" Mangano, often referred to as Bush's "Homelessness Czar," is the director of the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness. If anyone should have been helping the people of the Gulf Coast, it's him. The storm sure made enough people homeless. I interviewed Mangano once on the air. He said, "I often don't feel like a czar, I often feel like a mendicant beggar going around the country and in Washington to ensure that homeless people have what they need." "What we're attempting to do," he further explained, "is to create the political will so that no American is without a home." Of course, no one man can end homelessness alone, but it's good to know that someone who's a cross between Joan of Arc and St. Francis of Assisi is heading up the Bush Administration effort. The Interagency Council's big push is to get communities to adopt 10-year-plans to end chronic homelessness. The plans have surely done some good for those on the receiving end of the dough, but Katrina mocks the pretension that they are paths to ending homelessness. How can anyone tell how many homeless there will be in 10 years, when one storm can make hundreds of thousands of people homeless overnight?" In fact, there's not a projected end even to existing homelessness under the ten-year plans, not in ten years, not ever. So what would Phil Mangano do when confronted with a sudden, screaming need for housing that contradicts his own preachments, and a need that arises innocently at that? If getting clopped by the worst natural disaster in American history doesn't make you deserving, what does? I went down to the Gulf Coast to do advance work for the Homelessness Marathon, an annual 14-hour overnight live national radio broadcast (now tv too), focusing on homelessness and poverty in America. We originate from a different city each year. Next February 23rd, for our 12th broadcast, we're going to originate from Pass Christian, Mississippi. That's right next door to Waveland, which the Army Corps of Engineers has officially designated the "Ground Zero" where Katrina came ashore. We'll be describing our broadcast as coming from the "other" Ground Zero, the one that didn't get so much attention. People down there will tell you that New Orleans made it through the storm, and that the catastrophic failure of the levees was largely a man-made disaster, whereas the devastation on the rest of the Gulf Coast was done directly by Katrina. Pass Christian was less affected than Waveland. It lost a reported 100% of its public buildings and 100% of its businesses but only 80% of its homes. The Marathon's producer, Abby Harmon, and I expected to hear from the survivors a long-term tale of too-little-help. We did hear that, but we heard about some bright spots, too, like the volunteers who, everyone agrees, have been responsible for most of the recovery effort, proving both a right-wing and a left-wing point. As the right wing says, if the government does little, the people will do amazing things. But as the left wing says, without the help of their own government, the people can't do nearly enough. A common estimate is that the Mississippi Gulf Coast is only about 20% rebuilt, maybe a little more. What we didn't expect to find was a short-term crisis. In the coming five months, advocates expect to see a new wave of post-Katrina homelessness. You may be sure the people of the Gulf Coast want to be saved by the stroke of a pen more than they want to be evicted at the stroke of midnight. You may be sure that they will want the Obama Administration to change the Bush Administration policies that are putting them out of their homes. These are the simple facts: - Thousands of people in Mississippi remain in temporary housing. Starting in January, the leases will start to expire on MEMA cottages (MEMA is Mississippi's FEMA). According to MEMA spokesperson Jeff Rent, there are 2810 of these in the "lower six," Mississippi counties that were blasted by Katrina. Most have multiple bedrooms and, presumably, hold multiple dwellers, though no one seems to have done a census of them. MEMA actually wants these temporary domiciles to stay put, but local governments want them removed. In some cases this may be in order to keep promises written into the covenants of wealthy neighborhoods. In some cases, it may be to protect the tax base so as not to have the burden of too many poor, as one local county official explicitly stated (undoubtedly, some kind of Federal guarantee would solve this problem). Some residents may find a way to stay in their cottages by moving them to new locations or by permanentizing them with concrete foundations or whatever. MEMA says it is working to help all of the cottage dwellers, but a low-end expectation would be that only around seven percent will be able to keep their cottages. The icing on the cake is that on March 1st, the "Special Use Circumstances" permits that allowed for the placement of FEMA trailers will expire. There are an additional 3211 of those. - Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour diverted $600 million slated for housing to repairing and expanding the port at Gulfport, which received only an estimated $50 million in damage, and that was covered by insurance. An editorial in the New York Times called this diversion "the shame of Mississippi." Twelve members of the House, including Maxine Waters and Barney Frank, tried and failed to insert language into an appropriations bill to bar the diversion. They noted that Mississippi has "only devoted 55% of its [Community Block Development Grant] funds for direct housing recovery," and that "the State has frequently sought and received waivers of the low- and moderate-income requirement." Nonetheless, the Bush Administration's regime at HUD approved the diversion. - There is not nearly enough existing affordable housing to house the vast majority of the still-displaced survivors. For example, Hancock County, where Waveland is located, has more than 450 remaining trailers alone but only an estimated 312 rental units. Of those, only 60 are classified as "affordable" because they can be obtained for a rent of $800/month, but most of the people facing eviction from trailers and cottages have incomes in the $400-$600/month range, often from social security. - Some new housing is being built but the reconstruction is going very slowly for many reasons, including new building codes (especially in the "Velocity Zone"), higher insurance premiums, a shortage of capital and outstanding law suits with commercial insurers who refused to pay Katrina-related claims. The bottom line is that there is not a chance in the world that enough affordable housing can be built in time to replace more than a fraction of the temporary housing that is about to be withdrawn, and the math is devastating. If, of the roughly 6000 temporary units, as many as one-third stay in use or are replaced by permanent housing, and, on average, the remaining 4000 units house only two people, that still makes for 8000 mostly children, elderly, disabled, and frantic mothers being tossed out like garbage. The actual number will probably be much greater. Fortunately, Phil Mangano's Interagency Council on Homelessness -- which includes, among others, such Washington lightweights as the secretaries of Defense, Energy, HUD, Transportation and Interior -- is tasked with seeing that Americans are housed. If anyone should help the Katrina survivors by czaring it up and getting in the faces of the big boys on his council, it should be Phil. If anyone should be going around like a mendicant beggar, seeking funds for the poor Katrina folks, it should be Phil. So it's only right to wonder what Phil Mangano, the Bush Administration's mouthpiece on homelessness, has been doing to meet the needs of the Katrina Survivors in the lower six. This is who I asked: - Kathleen Johnson. Kathleen is a native Australian who has been in this country for more than thirty years. She has worked on Katrina relief since the storm, supervising a team of case managers who are currently working under a FEMA grant but many of whom worked for free before it came through. She has her fingers in more pies than one of Sweeney Todd's victims, doing everything she knows to push the recovery process along, and she does it, she says, without pay. She sleeps in primitive conditions she doesn't want discussed because they're "luxurious" compared to the makeshift shelters where many Katrina survivors remain (some of them never had temporary housing to get evicted from). She insists, "I haven't wanted for anything," but in truth, she recently was unable to go back to Australia for her mother's death and funeral. She looks tired too much of the time. - Keith Burton. Keith is a long-time journalist. His on-line newspaper, the Gulf Coast News ( http://www.gulfcoastnews.com), has become a widely-read chronicle of the recovery effort. He describes himself as a Conservative Republican, but he condemns what we're living under now as "Corporate Feudalism." In 1969, he says, after Hurricane Camille, the military came right in and cleaned up, but that after Katrina, because of the way government services have been privatized, it was all a matter of negotiating contracts that would be implemented at a snail's pace without accountability. - Al Showers. Al is a good example of why we have to retool the format we have used for eleven years on our broadcast, because there will be no way to divide our guests between those whose testimony is subjective and objective. As the Hancock County reporter for WLOX-TV, a profitable ABC affiliate in Biloxi, Al is a great source of objective information, but he is also someone who has had his share of subjective experiences. Among them was a long night as the only TV reporter to stay in the local Emergency Operations Center when Katrina hit. Things got so dicey that they made a list and magic markered numbers on their hands in case they drowned, so their bodies could be identified. Al was number 34. Why ask these three people about Phil Mangano? I am sure that they'll tell you that in the big scheme of things they're not important, but I think they are. They are as knowledgeable and committed as they could be and, beyond that, they each exemplify the limitless humanity Katrina unleashed even while it swept away human lives. Unfortunately, something too often happens to that humanity as soon as it gets a government position. When I asked these three people about Phil Mangano's role, they all said the same thing: "Who's Phil Mangano?" Heckuva job, Phil. What has happened to the Katrina survivors poses many questions that have no small bearing on the future of our country. Is this how we will treat the victims of future natural disasters? Is this how we will treat the victims of the current foreclosure crisis? How come guilty people on Wall Street were allowed to drive away with buckets of cash while innocent Katrina survivors are going to be thrown on the streets with next to nothing? Should the new administration take a new approach (yes) and, if so, what should it be? Those questions are for another time, and we'll sure be asking them on our broadcast. What is imperative now is that there are just weeks to get the evictions stopped. Sincerely, Jeremy Weir Alderson Director, Homelessness Marathon http://www.homelessnessmarathon.org 12th ANNUAL HOMELESSNESS MARATHON -- BROADCAST SCHEDULE KFCF -FM - 88.1 MHz Fresno Feb 23 HOUR 1 4-5 PM First: Welcome from ?Nobody.? Second: A Panel of Soon-To-Be-Homeless Evictees from the Mississippi Gulf Coast HOUR 2 5-6 PM Short Fresno Update: Homeless Dumping Long A Double Testimony Hour with special testimonies from Reilly Morse, an attorney with the Mississippi Center for Justice and Keith Burton, editor of the Gulf Coast News, Rev. Elijah Mitchell on health care, and a discussion on foreclosures with Ohio Rep. Marci Captor. HOUR 3 6-7 PM. Short Fresno Update: McDonalds in Madera Long TBA HOUR 4 7--8 pm Short Fresno Update: JoAnna and Cynthia Long ?What Does It Mean To ?Help The Homeless??? Co-hosts Dennis Culhane, Professor of Social Policy, U. of Penn and Jeremy Rosen, Director of the National Policy and Advocacy Council on Homelessness. Special Guest: WLOX-TV reporter Al Showers. HOUR 5 8 pm- 9 pm. Short Fresno Update: Sleeping Bag Project Long ?What?s Happening to the Youth?? Co-hosts Terry Latham, director of Hope Haven, a shelter for abused and neglected children,? and youth minister, Rene Soule. HOUR 6 9 pm-10 pm Short Fresno Update : Keil Long Things You Can't Say On The Radio: Does Cuba Handle Hurricanes Better? Randy Poindexter, with the U.S. - Cuba Hurricane Conference. HOUR 7 10pm-11pm Short ?Fresno Update: Food Not Bombs Long ?What Can The Rest of America Learn From The Gulf Coast?? Open Mic Hour with guest host Bryan Rutkosky, morning host on WQRZ radio, Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. HOUR 8 11P-12Mid. Short Fresno Update: Frank Culetta in Merced Long A Double Testimony Hour. Rev. Alex Lydell of H.O.P.E. Ministries in Washington Parish, Louisiana; Brice Phillips, founder of WQRZ (and a nationally recognized hero of Katrina), and Mike Rhodes, editor of the Community Alliance Newspaper in Fresno, California. HOUR 9 Feb 24 12-1 AM Short ?The Jungle - In Seattle? Long ?Why We Agitate.? Cheri Honkala, director of the Poor People?s Economic Human Rights Campaign, and Paul Boden, director of the Western Regional Advocacy Project and a board member of the Homelessness Marathon. HOUR 10 1-2 AM Short ?Increasing Foreclosures Lead to Increasing Homelessness in Boston? Long ?Solutions: Squatting? Tent Cities? -- Are These Viable Options? Guest Hosts, Abby Harmon, Homelessness Marathon Producer, and Michael Alderson, Homelessness Marathon Technical Director. HOUR 11 2-3 AM Short ?Feeding Yourself And Others From Dumpsters? Long ?What the Gulf Coast is Facing? Co-hosts: Roberta Avila, Director of the Interfaith Disaster Task Force. Kathleen Johnson, Director of Hancock County Katrina Relief HOUR 12 3-4 AM. Short ?Nickelsville? Long Open Mic Hour HOUR 13 4-5 AM Short ?Getting LBGT Youth Off the Street? Long A Double Testimony Hour, featuring special testimonies from Mary Townsend, director of El Pueblo, Thao Vu, director of Boat People SOS, Forrest Eubank, With The Mississippi Veterans Advocacy Council. Hour 14 5-6 AM Short ?Trouble In Denver? Long A Panel of People Losing Their Homes on the Alabama Gulf Coast -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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